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Topic: Our past as musicians! |
Mike A Holland
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Posted 23 Dec 2017 5:43 am |
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looking at Stefan Robertsons post regarding his previous old recordings made me wonder what other members past lives were as musicians? I imagine we all have a history that may be very different from the steel guitar course we are now steering. It maybe a bit of fun to post old recordings over the Christmas period to entertain ourselves after we have stuffed ourselves to oblivion. https://soundcloud.com/user-834371604/aftermath-still-gotthe-blues-for-you
Recorded on a cheap cassette tape in the early 1990s with plenty of gratuitous guitar widdling!
(I could not load an mp3 file from my computer so have had to give a soundcloud link)???? |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 23 Dec 2017 6:29 am
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Great thread! You were quite a guitar player, Mike.
Here's one we did in '78. The tune was written by my friend Willy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZkKos9RGaI
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Bill Groner
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QUAKERTOWN, PA
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Posted 23 Dec 2017 6:41 am
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I agree, quite the guitar player with a voice like Bryan Adams.  .....that's a good thing!
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Nic Neufeld
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Kansas City, Missouri
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James Hartman
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 23 Dec 2017 12:00 pm
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| Some nice playing there, guys. Since we've ventured off the steel guitar reservation, I'll offer a bit of noodling on an old New Orleans funk tune: https://youtu.be/E53B6grXxlY |
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Jim Newberry
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Seattle, Upper Left America
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Posted 23 Dec 2017 2:05 pm
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Southern old-time music and Louisiana Cajun music for me!
https://youtu.be/W7BuAvRiNvY (Kentucky fiddle tune: Brushy Fork of Johns Creek)
https://youtu.be/K5DDLBOecyw (Cajun reel)
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Stefan Robertson
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Hertfordshire, UK
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Posted 23 Dec 2017 2:09 pm
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Great thread. I won't post my Metal Band stuff from way back when. Probably couldn't even find the recordings it was on a VHS somewhere. LOL.
We did songs from Korn and Rage against the Machine and Tool and tons of originals in that vein. LOL 
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Terry VunCannon
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Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 23 Dec 2017 4:38 pm
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I quit college at 19 to play music(1976), & played in clubs up and down the east coast till the late 80s, NY to FL. Mostly 6 nighters hitting it hard as we were all single guys. Never quit playing in all these years, just quit the travel.
Here is a recording I made in 1980, I played all the guitars & bass, & used a drummer, piano player & sax player on a song I wrote, "Don't Worry". I was into Jeff Beck & Santana.
https://www.reverbnation.com/lawyersgunsmoney/song/19518248-dont-worryby-terry-v-solo |
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Bill Terry
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Bastrop, TX
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Posted 24 Dec 2017 9:09 am
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I played full time in a rock band for quite a while in the 70's, mostly around the DFW area. A few years ago one of the former band member's girlfriend contacted me. She had found a ton of live recordings that she posted to YouTube. Talk about a flash back.. wow..
These were accumulated over several years, during a couple of band member changes, so I'm not sure all of these are from 'my' version of the band, some of 'em are for sure. That said, the band's material didn't change that much, so it's pretty representative. Recordings are a bit rough, but not horrible.
Our big claim to fame was a flute playing lead singer, so we covered a lot of Jethro Tull and Marshall Tucker.
A few here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve_dtIWuwyU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aRYmlpBv0g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnD3i_CiSXs
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Bill Sinclair
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Waynesboro, PA, USA
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Posted 24 Dec 2017 9:54 am
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Really enjoying everyone's submissions. In the late 80's I did an acoustic Christmas disc with a guitar player (Lindsey Williams) and keyboard player (Tracy Reynolds). The trio was named "La Lumiere" and the CD was "Bethlehem Morning". I played recorder and soprano sax on the first cut below and sax on the second. We made it to give away as Christmas presents to our friends and it wound up being picked up by a label the following year. The guitar player kept the masters and re-released it some years later. I still like to play it at Christmas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYdrqy3t98g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQvC0v9gloY |
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Bill Groner
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QUAKERTOWN, PA
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Posted 24 Dec 2017 10:09 am
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| Bill Terry wrote: |
I played full time in a rock band for quite a while in the 70's, mostly around the DFW area. A few years ago one of the former band member's girlfriend contacted me. She had found a ton of live recordings that she posted to YouTube. Talk about a flash back.. wow..
These were accumulated over several years, during a couple of band member changes, so I'm not sure all of these are from 'my' version of the band, some of 'em are for sure. That said, the band's material didn't change that much, so it's pretty representative. Recordings are a bit rough, but not horrible.
Our big claim to fame was a flute playing lead singer, so we covered a lot of Jethro Tull and Marshall Tucker.
A few here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve_dtIWuwyU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aRYmlpBv0g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnD3i_CiSXs
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So which one is you?
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Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Bill Terry
From:
Bastrop, TX
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Posted 24 Dec 2017 1:18 pm
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| So which one is you? |
Kneeling on the right. That was my JMP-50 half stack and the right handed '68 LP was my main guitar. Those were the days when 'Marshall + LP' was THE rock rig.. anything else was a compromise. LOL... |
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Mike A Holland
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 26 Dec 2017 10:13 am
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| Really enjoyed your replies. Some great playing and quite different instrumentation from you all. The photos are great Bill Terry! If I can find some myself I will post them. Bill Groner I can't lay claim to the singing unfortunately just the noodling guitar! |
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Andy Henriksen
From:
Michigan, USA
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Posted 26 Dec 2017 10:38 am
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Oh, hell, why not. I started as a self-taught 6 string strummer and occasional vocalist in an psychedelic indie/experimental rock band 20 years ago. The songs here are a pretty good sampling of those we recorded.
A Sky Suspended is like 10 minutes long, but probably is the best example of our sound as it goes through 4 different "movements."
I've always been pretty proud of the songwriting I did in those days, but the playing and recording are fairly painful to me. The recordings are all DIY - first CD on a Tascam 4 track, then on a computer.
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=169765&content=music
That band morphed pretty organically over the course of a year or two into my current band that plays classic country...mostly as my BFF/bandmate and I started to get infatuated with Waylon and George Jones, and I started playing more slide guitar, then proper steel, and trying to remove myself from the "frontman" role. |
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Nic Neufeld
From:
Kansas City, Missouri
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Posted 26 Dec 2017 11:32 am
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*Misfired, replied to wrong thread, sorry!*
Last edited by Nic Neufeld on 26 Dec 2017 11:42 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 26 Dec 2017 11:37 am
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Your post landed in the wrong section, Nic!
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Ken Campbell
From:
Ferndale, Montana
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Posted 26 Dec 2017 1:48 pm
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| Thankfully I have neither pictures, or recordings, ( that I know of!). I spent about 3 years in the mid seventies in a prog rock band in the Cleveland Ohio area, then on to a touring top 40 band all up and down the front range from Libby, Montana to El Paso Texas. Did that for about 5 years. From there back to Cleveland for a real gritty blues band for a couple of years whereupon I gave up trying to be a pro musician. I moved to Bozeman in the early 90's and took up the bagpipes as a diversion. Did the pipe band thing for a while. Took up PSG, and did classic country up until 2015, whereupon I quit again. Couldn't stay away, now I play PSG, and clarinet, as well as all my old drums and bass stuff for myself. Wild ride. What a party. |
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Fred Treece
From:
California, USA
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Posted 26 Dec 2017 7:40 pm
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My past is "steel guitar". That's me with the fuzzy hair seated on the left, circa 1979.
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Something told me you were a steeler right out of the chute. I can’t tell what kind of guitar you’re playing but that looks like the back of a Mesa Boogie Mark 1 facing you from the side. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Guy Cundell
From:
More idle ramblings from South Australia
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Posted 26 Dec 2017 10:12 pm
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OK, Mike, I’ll play. I have the same sort of rock/pop/guitar background as many others here but while I was playing professionally I discovered that I enjoyed classroom teaching. To make that a career I needed a music degree so I did one in the early 90s, majoring in composition. It was a blast and I did OK. By the end of my degree, I was getting some arranging work and a few little commissions. But when I thought about it, that road looked even more perilous than the players’ path. I didn’t pursue it and completed teaching qualifications and teaching has been my journey.
Here is a little Japanese-styled piece for alto flute, voice and guitar that I wrote in 1994.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em26_7GyBDE |
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Mike A Holland
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 27 Dec 2017 7:01 am
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Doug, I should not be surprised that you are a pedal steel player. I am fighting the urge but I have too many things on my agenda at the moment.
Guy that was so beautiful and totally different from everything else....a big kudos to you!
I was also a flamenco guitar player......here is a Taranta I played on a guitalele(6 string Ukulele)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZzMX0C7-l8 |
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Terry VunCannon
From:
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 27 Dec 2017 7:52 am
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Some pictures from my past...
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Andy DePaule
From:
Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 31 Dec 2017 8:11 pm 1969 to 1977
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Well the Crazy Creek band was based in Willits California about 1975. Chris and I started it around 1972 and gigged a lot all over northern California and Southern Oregon. Most of the gigs I played bass and was just starting on steel so just a few steel tunes a night then. Had a Sho Bud S10 then.
This was 1969 still doing Rock & Roll in San Francisco. Going to a gig at a 50's Oldies but Goodies show we played so had to slick all my very long hair back and stick it down the back of my shirt, My 64 Jazz Bass. We often gigged at the Family Dog on the Great Highway and other SF venues;
Both these are in San Francisco about 1978 when we had moved part of the Crazy Creek band down there. Chris the singer still gigs in Riverside California with that band name... He just can't give it up!
Practice at home on my Sho Bud Crossover, Was my second steel and sounded wonderful. Also a photo of me in the back yard getting ready for a gig. Big hat, no horse.
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1956 Dewey Kendrick D-8 4&3, Restoration Project.
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